#suffragist — Public Fediverse posts
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It's International Women's Day, so when you see people zooming by on electric scooters, I remember Lady Norman and her autoped. She was a suffragist who insisted on being mobile without manly "protection" :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_Norman
(UPDATE: Yes, many men in the replies. The autoped used a combustion engine, I know. My post is however NOT about the autoped, it's about the woman standing on it. I know, that's really hard for some of you to deal with. :)
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It's International Women's Day, so when you see people zooming by on electric scooters, I remember Lady Norman and her autoped. She was a suffragist who insisted on being mobile without manly "protection" :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_Norman
(UPDATE: Yes, many men in the replies. The autoped used a combustion engine, I know. My post is however NOT about the autoped, it's about the woman standing on it. I know, that's really hard for some of you to deal with. :)
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“The Matilda Effect”: How Pioneering #Women Scientists Have Been Written Out of Science #History
https://www.openculture.com/2025/12/matilda-effect.html
In 1993, Cornell University historian of science #MargaretRossiter dubbed the denial of recognition to women scientists “the #Matildaeffect,” for #suffragist and #abolitionist #MatildaJoslynGage, whose 1893 essay “Woman as an Inventor” protested the common assertion that “woman… possesses no inventive or mechanical genius" -
#HarrietTubman, who, after being born into #slavery, became an #abolitionist instrumental in the #UndergroundRailroad; #LucyStone, a prominent abolitionist & #suffragist; #MedgarEvers, a #CivilRights leader who was assassinated by a member of the Ku Klux Klan; #CesarChavez, a #labor leader; & #DoloresHuerta, another labor leader.
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#WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #Heterosexism #bigotry #discrimination #hate #Trump #PeteHegseth #military #Tyranny #AmericanAutocracy -
#HarrietTubman, who, after being born into #slavery, became an #abolitionist instrumental in the #UndergroundRailroad; #LucyStone, a prominent abolitionist & #suffragist; #MedgarEvers, a #CivilRights leader who was assassinated by a member of the Ku Klux Klan; #CesarChavez, a #labor leader; & #DoloresHuerta, another labor leader.
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#WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #Heterosexism #bigotry #discrimination #hate #Trump #PeteHegseth #military #Tyranny #AmericanAutocracy -
Have you heard of Sarah Moore Grimké, born on this date in 1792? I hadn’t until a few years ago, which is a shame. A wise woman of compassion, courage, & conviction, she & her sister, Angelina, born into a wealthy family of enslavers in Charleston, SC, were far ahead of their time (as was Angelina’s husband, Theodore Weld). And in many respects, given recent appalling developments, also far ahead of our own…
#WomensRights #Abolitionist #Suffragist #EqualRights #History
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sarah-moore-grimke -
Have you heard of Sarah Moore Grimké, born on this date in 1792? I hadn’t until a few years ago, which is a shame. A wise woman of compassion, courage, & conviction, she & her sister, Angelina, born into a wealthy family of enslavers in Charleston, SC, were far ahead of their time (as was Angelina’s husband, Theodore Weld). And in many respects, given recent appalling developments, also far ahead of our own…
#WomensRights #Abolitionist #Suffragist #EqualRights #History
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sarah-moore-grimke -
The #Feminist Who Inspired the #Witches of #Oz
The #untoldstory of #suffragist #MatildaGage, the #woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her #soninlaw #LFrankBaum as he #wrote his #classic #novel
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #History #WomensRights #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-feminist-inspired-witches-of-oz-180985334/
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The #Feminist Who Inspired the #Witches of #Oz
The #untoldstory of #suffragist #MatildaGage, the #woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her #soninlaw #LFrankBaum as he #wrote his #classic #novel
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #History #WomensRights #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-feminist-inspired-witches-of-oz-180985334/
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“Although we often see #suffragist and #suffragette used as though they mean the same thing, their historical meanings are quite different…”
https://www.nps.gov/articles/suffragistvssuffragette.htm -
“Although we often see #suffragist and #suffragette used as though they mean the same thing, their historical meanings are quite different…”
https://www.nps.gov/articles/suffragistvssuffragette.htm -
Although it took many years for all women to attain the right to vote, these diverse champions -Alice Paul, Jovita Idar, Patsy Mink , Mary McLeod Bethune, Debra Lekanoff, , Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt & others – were leaders in the #suffrage movement.
#womensequalityday #19thamendment #suffragist #vote #suffrage
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#February 11, 1856
#OTD Eliza Calvert Hall, American #Writer & #Suffragist, is born.She wrote,
"To me, as a child, men & women fell into 2 great divisions:
Those who had #Gardens & those who had only houses.To the fancy of childhood, a #Garden was paradise... w/ green leaves & blue sky overhead, & #Blossoms;
...while those others, dispossessed of life's springs, summers, & autumns, appeared darkly entombed in shops & parlors where the year might as well have been a perpetual #Winter.
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#February 11, 1856
#OTD Eliza Calvert Hall, American #Writer & #Suffragist, is born.She wrote,
"To me, as a child, men & women fell into 2 great divisions:
Those who had #Gardens & those who had only houses.To the fancy of childhood, a #Garden was paradise... w/ green leaves & blue sky overhead, & #Blossoms;
...while those others, dispossessed of life's springs, summers, & autumns, appeared darkly entombed in shops & parlors where the year might as well have been a perpetual #Winter.
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Nora Stanton Barney GB-born US #CivilEngineer #architect #suffragist. 1 of 1st women #engineering graduates in US. Husband issued ultimatum of be wife or engineer, she chose latter. Granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, US #suffragist d #OTD 18 Jan 1971 bit.ly/2OEImS4
#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery -
Nora Stanton Barney GB-born US #CivilEngineer #architect #suffragist. 1 of 1st women #engineering graduates in US. Husband issued ultimatum of be wife or engineer, she chose latter. Granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, US #suffragist d #OTD 18 Jan 1971 bit.ly/2OEImS4
#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery -
“I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving".
Sylvia #Pankhurst (1882-1960)